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V olum n XXII, Num ber 4
“The E yes and Ears o f th e C ojn m u n ity”
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Jefferson Hosts Martin Luther
King, Jr. Celebration
Above, Mattie Ann Col
lier Spears sang at the
state’s largest celebra
tion honoring the Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Left, Martin Luther King,
Jr. was born January 15,
1929. He was killed by
an assassin on April 4,
1968, in Memphis,
Tennessee.
On M onday, January 20, Jeffer
son High School hosted the state’s
largest celebration to honor the Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The seventh
annual “ Keep Living the D ream ”
celebration offered continuous en
tertainment and commentary from
noon to 6 p.m.
The school auditorium which
holds 1,500 people was continually
filled throughout the afternoon. The
special tribute featured a combination
of drama, speeches and song provided
by local leaders, musical talent, and
gospel choirs from metropolitan Port
land and a guest appearance from Total
Experience Choir from Seattle. The
entire concert and program was broad
cast live on KBOO (90.7 FM) and on
Paragon Cable Television.
The seventh annual
‘Keep Living the
Dream celebration
offered continuous
entertainment and
commentary
Portland Parks And Recreation Celebrates Improvements
At King School Park Playground
King School park playground has
some new equipment and the park has
new lighting, benches, and trees - all
thanks to funds generated from the Parks
Improvement Levy approved by voters
in 1989. On Thursday, January 23, one
hundred second and third graders from
Martin Luther King Elementary School
will help Commissioner Mike L ind
berg officially cut the ribbon and put a
stamp of approval on the com pleted
project.
T h u rsd a y , J a n u a ry 23
11:15 AM
K ing School P a rk -
N E 6th and H um bolt
Joining Com m issioner Lindberg
and the children in the celebration will
be Portland Parks and Recreation Di
rector Charles Jordan, King School
Principal Laverne Davis, and Fred
S tew art- Chairman o f the King Im
provement Association.
Levy improvements to the park
are not limited to above ground! This
spring, the ballfield will be renovated
and irrigation improvements will be
made to the entire park. According to
Commissioner Lindberg, “ Our city’s
neighborhood parks and playgrounds
are the backbone of ourparksystem . It
is essential that we continue to put re
sources into our inner-city parks to as
sure that all our children have safe, fun
and accessible places to play.”
to announce a massive recall o f defec
tive engines. However, the company
was found to lead the nation when two
o f its lines were compared with others,
“ The most frequently stolen cars in
A m erica in the past five years are the
Chevrolet Camaros and the Olds C ut
lass.”
It is more than shameful when you
have the President o f a great nation
touring the world on a marketing junket
to yesterday’s “ third w orld” nations,
begging for “ QUOTAS AND SETA-
SIDES.” Rather ironic, don’t you think?
A growing fallout from the ill-conceived
trip is producing a sobering trauma in
the American public. From the Japa
nese press and parliam ent we have it
that “ American workers are lazy,over
paid, and too illiterate to follow written
directions or schem atics.” The most
embarrassing feature o f this is that it
sounds like a direct quote from an
American industry roundtable critiqu
ing our EDUCATION SYSTEM.
There arc many o f us of the other-
than-majority class of disadvantaged citi
zens (race, gender) who have been acri
moniously accused of seeking an unfair
position in society by demanding the
Bush-type “ Quotas and Setasides.” What
happened to that old adage “ w hat’s
good for the goose is good for the gan
der” ? I thought that Anna Quindlen
(N.Y. Times) dealt rather well with this
m atter in her column last week, and in
good time too. As the layoffs and plant
closures escalated, there typically will
be increasing com petition, confronta
tion, stress and overt racism. She had
the following comments for those
‘ ‘advantaged’ ’ who now believe blacks
A 21 -story office building with an
adjacent parking garage has been pro
posed near Lloyd Center by S-PAC, a
joint venture partnership of Pacific
Power and the Ralph Schlesinger
Company.
The partnership will own the pro
posed building, located at 600 N.E.
Holladay Street. GBD Architects has
been selected as the building arthitect,
and Hoffman Construction as the gen
eral contractor for construction.
Pacific Development, Inc., a Paci-
fiCorp subsidiary, has agreed to sell
the site for the new building, and re
tains substantial other holdings in the
Lloyd District. Pacific Development
and Schlesinger were partners in the
new state office building, currently in
the final stages o f construction, nearby
at 800 N.E. Oregon S t
The name o f the new project is the
“ 600 Holladay Building” .
Pacific Power and some Pacific-
Corp staff functions will be the pri
mary tenants o f the building, which
represents approximately 60 percent
of the total office space. Pacific Power
and Utah Power arc electric utility di
visions o f PacifiCorp. Together they
serve 1.2 million customers in seven
W estern states.
No other leases are signed at this
time, though discussions are under
way with interested groups such as the
law firm of Stoel Rives Boley Jones &
Grey. The Ralph Schlesinger Co. will
manage and operate the building on
behalf o f the joint venture.
Plans call fora480,000-squar-foot
office building with an adjacent eight
floor above grade parking garage. In
addition to providing parking for the
office building, the parking structure is
expected to serve the planned Oregon
arena and replace surface park ing being
removed as the Lloyd District devel
ops.
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space on the main levels of the building
and parking garage, a daycare facility
and conference rooms and teleconfer
encing facilities for building tenants.
Schematic building plans go be
fore the City of Portland, Bureau of
Planning in January as part of the De
sign Review process. Actual construc
tion is scheduled to begin in mid-
1992, with occupancey in mid to late
1994.
Pacific Power curently leases the
Public Service Building on S.W. Sixth
and Salmon streets in Portland. It was
constructed in 1927. Several firms have
already expressed interest in the build
ing and plans for its redevelopment
are in progress.
Community Care
Needs Our Help
And Support
MARTIN
LUTHER
KING, JR.
by Michael Lindsey
Our own Clara Peoples has for
many years gone the last mile for the
community. She has clothed, housed
and fed residents for over 20 years,
never asking for anything in return,
but the ability and resources to care.
Now she needs help. In these
recessionary times where unemploy
ment is rampant and individuals and
families are hurting, the need is greater
than ever before. And Community
Care needs our help. Clara Peoples
cannot do it alone. Please help,: she
has done her part, it is time we do
ours.
Please send your generous
donations to Community Care, c/o
Bethel AME Church, 5828 NE 8th,
Portland, OR, 97211.
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thieves to the tune of BILLIONS OF
D O LLA RS~A nd this while other p a
triots spun out o f their lucrative gov
ernment jobs to become successful lob
byists and public relations experts in
representing Japanese and other Asian
manufacturers. How do you think these
firms got so solidly entrenched here in
the first place? (Add Taiwan, Hong
Kong, S ingapore,etc.). Greed and short
term profit have run amuck and now
the piper demands his price.
Next week this series will develop
an approach that specifically addresses
the minority situation in all of this. We
will look at both the immediate and
longterm effects of America’s economic
fiascos upon black job seekers and
families. We are not seeking to “ cry
havoc,” but to define the problem ac
curately, and to develop solutions.
Special
by Bill Barber
by McKinley Burt
EDITORIAL
Now that it has been accepted in
the press, Congress and the think tanks
that the ill-fated trip accomplished noth
ing (include union headquarters), what
will be the adm inistration’s next move
in a critical and dangerous election
year. Need we be on guard against
some headline-grabbing MILITARY
ADVENTURE? Will CUBA be at
tacked? Is an American-backed coup in
IRAQ imminent? Will the accused ter
rorists in LIBYA be forcibly extra
dited? Certainly, there is a precedent
for such escapades since failing gov
ernments or administrations have
adopted such attention-diverting ploys
since time inmemorial.
It is obvoius that for a decade the
nation has been raped and ravaged by
gangs of junk bond hucksters, savings
& loan executives and other high-level
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Isaiah’s Song Of The Vineyard:
Are Those Wild Grapes I See?
Heroes And
Heroines Sung
And Unsung
and women have it made.
“ Nevermind that you can walk
through the offices of almost any big
company and see a sea o f white faces.”
(Try the offices or shops along Martin
Luther King Blvd.). “ Never mind that
in the good old days preferential treat
ment was routinely given to brothers
and sons of workers in certain lines of
work. Perceptions of programs to edu
cate and hire more black citizens as a
partial antidote to decades of system
atic exclusion have been inflated to
enormous proportions in the public
m ind.” (“ Partial” is the right word.
For years I have pointed out how Euro
pean immigrants have always been given
job and craft preference for 1 5 0 y e a rs-
and that these laws and custom s arc still
in practice-D ept. of Labor cites “ a
shortage o f certain skills” )
Sports
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New Lloyd District Office Building Announced
No Jobs And No Shame, Part I
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
That highly touted economic task
force o f the Bush Administration has
returned from Japan and the signals are
mixed; “ Disappointing” or “ A com
plete failure.” The President’s excur
sion under a table failed to define a new
relationship between the two super
powers; but Japan’s prime minister has
stated that America is a “ subcontrac
tor and supplier of raw m aterials.”
The representatives of the Big Three
automakers fumed and fussed with dec
larations o f American resurgence in
manufacturing skills and quality con
trols. The category o f superlatives was
com pletely exhausted: mastery, pri
macy, paramount, superb, superior,
finest unexcelled, leading edge. Within
hours of their return, G.M. was forced
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